telpher line
noun1
Transport An electrically-powered track and cable designed for conveying freight-filled vehicles.
- It must not be supposed that I look on the new telpher lines as likely to compete with railways or injure their traffic.1883, Fleming Jenkin, “On Telpherage”, in Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 29, page 511:
- As a rule, telpher lines are of comparatively limited length. Originally, all telpher lines consisted of an elevated road, formed of a wire cable, on which vantages electrically propelled cars ran.1905, Edwin James Houston, Electricity in Every-day Life:
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- The question was finally decided by installing several new vertical retorts and an electric telpher line to replace manual charging and converying systems.1912 March 1, “Electric Telpher Lines in Small Gas Works”, in Gas Age, volume 30, page 212: